The Bad Buying Blog
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Picture: LPhot Alex Ceolin, UK MOD© Crown copyright 2019 You may know the expression “don’t spoil the ship for a ha’pworth of tar*”, but we have a case now where […]
In my Bad Buying book, I wrote about the IT disaster that affected millions of TSB bank customers back in 2018. Here is the story from the book. “In 2015 […]
There are a number of very common procurement frauds; well covered of course in the Bad Buying book. “Inside jobs” based around a corrupt employee take a number of forms […]
There are local elections in England this week – but we are seeing more cases of corruotion and incompetence in local governemtn, with huge amounts of the taxpayers’ money wasted.
the public Accounts committee criticised the UK’s Ministry of Defence last week for its procurement failings. Meanwhile a major MOD contract is in dispute with the supplier.